Coffee

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by alexander

Michael, i agree, bottomless cup is crap,

Yes we are lucky here to have lots of Greeks, Italians, Lebanese etc
who know about coffee
But in malls you are still likely to get crap.

Fortunately Starbucks has just pulled up and left Oz- Hooray!

[alexander]

Yeah, i prefer small shops filled with Turks, if you ask me, i like to drink my arabica, Arabic-style (strong coffee prepared in these pots, where you boil water and then add coffee and boil it some more and it comes out sooo good, no cream, no sugar, and a cup of ice water, you take a sip of coffee, and before the next sip, you take a sip of water to cleanse the senses.... such an enjoyable experience, and it definitely turns heads at a coffee shop here in the US )

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by alexander

Yeah, i prefer small shops filled with Turks, if you ask me, i like to drink my arabica, Arabic-style (strong coffee prepared in these pots, where you boil water and then add coffee and boil it some more and it comes out sooo good, no cream, no sugar, and a cup of ice water, you take a sip of coffee, and before the next sip, you take a sip of water to cleanse the senses.... such an enjoyable experience, and it definitely turns heads at a coffee shop here in the US )

I am with you there.
Not abig Turkish community here although strong ties because of Anzac Cove (WW1)
The Leabnese here make a'short black' with about and inch of grounds in the bottom. You can certainly stand up a spoon in it.

My daughter was a 'barista" briefly in a new shop in London. The new machine broke down (probably because no-one knew how to work it). The Italian repair man after af ew minutes talking to her about the machine said
"Who are you you are not English?"
"No I come from Australia"
" Ah; Australians; they know how to make coffee."
Still you can get crap coffee, in my own restaurant I would often pull lousy coffee from our $8,ooo Italian machine. while others like my daughter could pull a lovely cup every time. it seems areal art.

Keeping the machine VERY clean is part of it.
Often you get a lousy coffee in Malls where they have not cleaned their machine for a day or so. The coffee granules get into the machine and you get a burnt flavour. sheer ignorance and laziness. I take it back tell them to clen their machine and get my money back (I am allowed to be a cranky old man now)
The old inner city suburbs full of -now very wealthy- migrants is the place to go for good coffee. (The inner city suburbs were not fashionable when the migrants arrived (mostly after ww2) now homes are worth many millions)

I think that, like chocolate, many seem to have lost their taste for bitter things and drink week, luke-warm coffee and eat that abomination "White Chocolate" (What is that?).

Never thought of the glass of water; but an excellent Idea

[alexander]

white chocolate is an oxymoron, it's neither of the two... its also a sought product by those white people who are tired of correcting the once "dark chocolate" term, with a more politically correct, african-american chocolate.

I agree on cleanliness makes the coffee, the cleanliness of everything in the process, from equipment to water to coffee ground to everything, the environment, the cup, all makes or brakes a good cup of coffee...

[freeztar]

The...ahem...Center for Science in the Public Interest produced a study that helps settle some of the confusion surrounding coffee and caffiene. Some of these claims are quite incredible. Apparently caffiene can lower your chances of Type II diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

Actually, they had quite a lot of good things to say about it. And to think, I gave up coffee for my health.

http://www.cspinet.org/nah/02_08/caffeine.pdf

[alexander]

Actually, they had quite a lot of good things to say about it. And to think, I gave up coffee for my health.

and i picked it up

no there are some good effects of coffee, i've read that study before, found it rather interesting. It turns out that when they refer to safe amounts of coffee, they are referring to having up to 5 or 6 or sometimes even more cups of coffee a day.... i don't feel guilty about 2 on a week day, that i have and generally one throughout the whole weekend...

[Michaelangelica]

I had a very bad gastric reflux all night af ew days ago when I drank a strong cup of my wife's"Instant coffee". Being out of my ground beans. (she is not a serious coffee drinker)
I wonder what that was about?
I had to sit up half the night to reduce the symptoms; but it was a horrible night. I was tired and washed out the next day.

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

I had a very bad gastric reflux all night af ew days ago when I drank a strong cup of my wife's"Instant coffee". Being out of my ground beans. (she is not a serious coffee drinker)
I wonder what that was about?

You were poisoned dear!

How big is your life insurance policy?

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man,
Buffy

[alexander]

Originally Posted by micael

I wonder what that was about?

As a serious coffee drinker you know that espresso is a dark, black-ish powder, not a white crystal-ish one

did you add creme? was it fresh-ish?

did you eat anything else?

Originally Posted by Buffy

How big is your life insurance policy?

Oh come on, there's no need to kill the wife for this, i mean she may not be in on the plot at all

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

"Instant coffee"

Me thinks this is an oxymoron. There is no such thing as instant coffee. You must have meant instant coffee flavored beverage like coffee kool-aid...